UnD, oh, I see. I had always assumed that AMD modelled against Intel products, but I guess this is an official proclamation of that. Thanks for the find.
What is new here is that the direct comparisons to Intel frequencies is explicitly made.
You're right about this. In the past AMD has claimed the spec referred to how a device compared to an older model of Athlon. Nobody believed them but that was the claim. Now they've come clean, at least on what message they're trying to send.